Justin and Bree discuss World of Warcraft, BitCraft Online, the possible sale of CCP Games and EVE Online, LOTRO, DDO, Palia, Dune Awakening, and Chrono Odyssey, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Palia, and the land of Steam Decks.
On MOP, we can seldom go and single day without someone in the comments wondering when a specific MMO will get an engine upgrade or overhaul. The games always change, of course, but the sentiment remains. Just in the last few weeks, I've seen people ...
Despite my Mariner being in Moria for weeks now, I have yet to feel that uncomfortable itch to move on and get out of there. This is most likely due to two factors. First, I've been alternati ...
If you look up to the highest point on the landscape and squint, you might be able to make out a lone figure standing there with a Polaroid camera, snapping some pics of peons like you below. This, of course, is Vincent, the cat of the world who ...
It does seem as though Standing Stone Games has been talking about a "kinship refresh" for Lord of the Rings Online for years now, doesn't it? It's right up there with the 4K UI overhaul, in terms of "most talked about and most delayed" projects. But ...
I honestly believe that LOTRO has an entire department devoted to developing new and freakier versions of spiders for the game. I've never encountered any MMO that's been so spider-prol ...
In this week's Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about flow in MMOs - the psychology concept, not zone or progression design flow. Here's Wikipedia's definition: "Flow in positive psychology, also known colloquially as being in the zone or ...
Say hello to Lord of the Rings Online's new Midsummer Festival that's sending you to the brand-new tropical island of Furtherholm! LOTRO officially kicked off this year's Midsummer Festival today, inviting all players onto this island for new quests ...
OK, technically, it's not even summer at all yet, but the Midsummer Festival does arrive to Lord of the Rings Online this week. Today's 44.3 update prepares the world for the launch of the festival tomorrow, which will see a refreshed event with a ...
Last week's abrupt announcement that Lord of the Rings Online is closing down all of its 32-bit servers caught many players by surprise, especially those who thought that these worlds had longer to live based on remaining population. In last Friday's ...